Lincoln National Ready for its Quarterly Earnings Release

Published on Monday, 06 February 2012 11:36 Written by Gerard Lerod

New York, February 6th (TradersHuddle.com) - Shares of Lincoln National Corporation (NYSE:LNC) traded lower by -1.07% ahead of its quarterly earnings release. Lincoln National, the insurer and wealth asset Management Company is expected to release its quarterly results on February 7^th.

Wall Street Analysts consensus calls for a profit of $1 a share on $2.77 billion revenue.

Lincoln National estimates have a range of $0.19 a share. The high estimate calls for profit of $1.12 a share and the low estimate is calling for a profit of $0.93 a share, a year ago for the quarter the company reported $0.92 a share.

Lincoln National Corporation (NYSE:LNC) owns and operates wealth accumulation and protection businesses. The Pennsylvania based company sells a wide range of products including institutional and/or retail fixed and indexed annuities, variable annuities, universal life insurance, variable universal life insurance, term life insurance, mutual funds, and managed accounts.

Other companies on the watch on this earnings event are MetLife, Inc. NYSE:MET and StanCorp Financial Group, Inc. NYSE:SFG.